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I agree its not enough truck to load it to the hill, but my truck is rated for 8,100lbs and all Im sticking in the trailer is a 3,100lb duster, so Im ok.

not everybody can afford a special truck for everything or a biga**ed dually. Hell that 1500 is plenty good. we used to haul 2 1000 lb steers to market in 1/2 ton 48 Ford truck and spray feilds haulling 250 gallons of water around. 1.5 ton trucks were/are hauling 150 - 200 bushels of 60 lb/bu wheat to market. Cars were towing Air streams. People didn't have Sunday go to meeting trucks. You towed and worked with what you had. Some people still have to do that.
PS: People towing trailers at 80 MPH shouldn't be towing. Just because the speed limit is 0/75 you don't have to drive that fast. Remember that you are towing and no matter what the load rating is you have to allow for it. Stopping distances and mauverability are greatly reduced with a trailer. 5 or ten MPH really don't amount to squat in a couple hundred mile trip. If you have to be some where that few minutes sooner - leave earlier. You will have a safer more comfortable ride and save gas to boot.



Is that the story you plan to tell the DOT cop after he puts you on the scales and tells you you're overloaded?

Like Tony said, its all find and dandy what you did 20 years ago, but that's not today. If you're in an accident and overloaded, a lawyer is going to have a field day taking everything you own.

Is was Bob George who got stopped not that long ago and got a nice hefty fine, and sent to get his CDL IIRC.



it depends on what the laws are there. In va. If the truck has car tags then the trailer carrys the weight that means the title of the trailer has to be registered for more than what ever the trailer weights and contents. the truck doesn't matter. if you have truck tags then the title of the truck has to be registered for the weight of the truck, trailer and contents. So you can tow the trailer with a volkswagon long as the trailer is registered for enough weight you might die but they don't care about that. They just want to get our money.



In PA if the trailer is registered at over 10,000lbs its the truck plate that must be registered to cover both the truck AND the trailer as far as weight. They call it registered "in combination". It doesn't matter if this is the law in the state you are from or not. IF you tow through here, you have to comply same as any other states laws you plan to tow through.

You can't put car plates on a truck here, but there are different weight classes for truck plates and the registration price increases accordingly.

The article in the archives about Bob George is a good read.

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